“I just look out the window and I'm like, 'did that just happen?'" Montgomery said, according to KOMO-TV. "She was most concerned about seeing out the window, and I couldn't figure out what that was. It was really just about seeing where her stop was."

The dog’s owner, Jeff Young, told the station that her first solo run happened when he took too long to finish a cigarette. Now she regularly takes the trip alone, and he catches up with her at the dog park.

"All the bus drivers know her. She sits here just like a person does," commuter Tiona Rainwater told KOMO-TV. "She makes everybody happy. How could you not love this thing?"